How many CPU with VMware

[dranakan]

Hi,

What is the best number of CPU to set on a VMware installation ? Is it better to set 1 CPU or more ?

With a serveur RHEL 6.3 64 bits with Alfresco 4.0.d (or more) and Mysql.

The JVM tuning (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JVM_Tuning) recommends multiple CPU but I don't know if it's not better to set only one with VMware.

Thank you.

[rjohnson]

Depends on lots and lots of things and not least the underlying hardware of your VMWare set up because that giverns the potency of a vCPU. For a small system with a few users we have a server (Ubuntu) with 2 vCPU and 3Gb RAM and it works very well.

We started with 1 vCPU and that was really rather slow.

Bob Johnson